Male androphilia (i.e., male sexual attraction to other adult males) is known to cluster within families. Some studies demonstrate that male androphilia clusters in both the paternal and maternal familial lines, whereas ...

Executive function (EF) and language learning play a prominent role in early childhood development. Empirical research continues to point to a concurrent relation between these two faculties. What has been given little ...

Barrett, Louise; Pollet, Thomas V.; Stulp, Gert(Frontiers MediaArts and ScienceDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of LethbridgeVU University AmsterdamLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2014)

Does evolutionary theorizing have a role in psychology?This is a more contentious issue than one might imagine, given that, as evolved creatures, the answer must surely be yes. The contested nature of evolutionary psychology ...

We compared two non-conceptive sexual behavioral patterns (female-male mounting – FMM – and female-female mounting – FFM) across four free-ranging groups of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) living at three different field ...

Background: Few studies have examined earlier discharge in relation to Canadian guidelines
for earlier discharge and infant feeding. We addressed differences in readmission
(1 year post-discharge) and exclusive breastfeeding ...

The current study investigated the association between Machiavellianism and children’s peer interactions in the playground using observational
methods. Primary school children (N = 34; 17 female), aged 9 to 11 years, ...

Androphilia refers to attraction to adultmales, whereas gynephilia refers to attraction to adult
females. The current study employed self-report and viewing time (response time latency)
measures of sexual attraction to ...

Narrow riparian woodlands along non-perennial streams have made it possible for vervet
monkeys to penetrate the semi-arid karoo ecosystem of South Africa, whilst artificial water
points have more recently allowed these ...

Androphilia refers to sexual attraction to adult males, whereas gynephilia refers to sexual attraction to adult females. Male
androphilia is an evolutionary paradox. Its development is at least partially influenced by ...

Coetzee, Vinet; Greeff, Jaco M.; Barrett, Louise; Henzi, Peter(Academy of Science of South AfricaArts and ScienceDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of PretoriaUniversity of St. AndrewsUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, 2009)

Previous studies on facial recognition have considered widely
separated populations, both geographically and culturally, making
it hard to disentangle effects of familiarity with an ability to identify
ethnic groups per ...

Objective: Gambling fallacies are believed to be etiologically related to the development of problem gambling.
However, this evidence is tenuous due to the lack of consensus on which things constitute gambling fallacies ...

Degree of lateralization for grasping predicts the maturity of the language production system in young, typically-developing children. In this report we provide compelling evidence for the relationship between right hand ...

Large-scale interspecific studies of mammals ranging between 0.04–280 kg have shown that larger animals walk with more
extended limb joints. Within a taxon or clade, however, the relationship between body size and joint ...

Does evolutionary theorizing have a rold in psychology? This is a more contentious issue than one might imagine, given that, as evolved creatures, the answer must surely be yes. The contested nature of evolutionary ...